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With an odd number of seats in a half-Senate election (3 or 5), 50.1% of the vote wins a majority (2/3) or (3/5). With an even number of seats in a half-Senate election (6), 57.1% of the vote is needed to win a majority of seats (4/6). The ungrouped candidates in the far right column do not have a box above the line.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. [1] Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election, 21 May 2022. [2]
Leader's seat Australian Capital Territory (won seat) Tasmania (not up for election) South Australia (lost seat) Seats before 0 1 1 Seats won 1 1 0 Seats after 1 2 0 Seat change 1 1 1 Popular vote 60,406 31,023 23,425 Percentage 0.40% 0.21% 0.16% Swing 0.40 0.16
This article summarises results for the general elections to the Australian House of Representatives and Senate, respectively the lower and upper houses of Australia's federal bicameral legislative body, the Parliament of Australia. The number of seats has increased steadily over time, from 111 for the first election, to the current total of ...
In the Senate, the Labor government retained 26 seats, the Liberal/National Coalition dropped to 32 seats, the Greens increased to 12 seats, the Jacqui Lambie Network had 2 seats, One Nation had 2 seats, the United Australia Party won 1 seat, and independent David Pocock won 1 seat in the Australian Capital Territory.
The Parliament of Australia has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house, the Australian House of Representatives, and the use of the single transferable vote to elect the upper house, the Australian Senate.
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024. Simone Pathe, CNN. August 26, 2024 at 10:31 AM. ... USA TODAY. Deadly hurricane season ends with at least 335 US deaths. Advertisement.
This is a list of appointments to the Australian Senate, which is the upper house of the Parliament of Australia, filling casual vacancies, from the Senate's creation in 1901 until the present day. There is a second list of invalid elections and appointments to the Senate.